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Oksi
Booklist Editors' ChoiceBulletin Blue Ribbons 2021 It's a fairytale nightmare of the highest quality, a heartfelt history...
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Booklist Editors' Choice
Bulletin Blue Ribbons 2021 It's a fairytale nightmare of the highest quality, a heartfelt history lesson written in flames, a poem.--Comics Beat ★ At once beautiful and creepy...a fusion of fantasy and folklore that is more fine art than comic book. A must for libraries with folklore and world culture collections.--School Library Connection (starred) ★ Fluidly rendered in inky b&w washes; accents of color leap off the page as the translation by Aronpuro flows smoothly.--Publishers Weekly (starred) ★ Painful yet unforgettable. [this] Finnish fairy tale sees the damage that gods, mothers, and daughters are willing to inflict upon one another, all under the guise of love.--Booklist (starred) ★ Rich. Radiant. Arresting. A breathtaking exploration of generational connection and the ways that damage can pass down from mother to daughter as easily as love.--BCCB (starred) Where was the bear born?
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By the moon, next to the sun
Among the stars of the plough
Sent to Earth in a golden cradle
With silvery chains. Poorling is a little bear. She's a bit different from her brothers. Mother keeps their family safe. For the Forest is full of dangers. It is there that Mana lives, with her Shadow children. And above them all, Emuu, the great Grandma in the Sky. From the heart of Finnish folklore comes a breathtaking tale of mothers, daughters, stars and legends, and the old gods and the new.
Author: Mari Ahokoivu
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.58lbs
Size: 8.96h x 7.52w x 1.46d
ISBN: 9781646141135
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 08/09/2021 pg. 72
School Library Journal 09/01/2021 pg. 108
Foreword 08/26/2021
Booklist 10/15/2021 pg. 37
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2021 pg. 94
About the Author
Mari Ahokoivu is an illustrator and comics artist from Finland. Her magnum opus, Oksi, was called beautiful, clever, funny, vibrant, and full of magic by the biggest newspaper in her home country; was shortlisted for the Jarkko Laine Award; and has now been translated into English as the first graphic novel on the Levine Querido list. Silja-Maaria Aronpuro is a Finnish translator. She finds bringing other people's stories to life in a different language pretty magical. She is happy to have translated books that have been selected the Finnish graphic novel of the year 2018 and the translation of the year 2019 by the panel of critics in the Finnish comics society's magazine.
Bulletin Blue Ribbons 2021 It's a fairytale nightmare of the highest quality, a heartfelt history lesson written in flames, a poem.--Comics Beat ★ At once beautiful and creepy...a fusion of fantasy and folklore that is more fine art than comic book. A must for libraries with folklore and world culture collections.--School Library Connection (starred) ★ Fluidly rendered in inky b&w washes; accents of color leap off the page as the translation by Aronpuro flows smoothly.--Publishers Weekly (starred) ★ Painful yet unforgettable. [this] Finnish fairy tale sees the damage that gods, mothers, and daughters are willing to inflict upon one another, all under the guise of love.--Booklist (starred) ★ Rich. Radiant. Arresting. A breathtaking exploration of generational connection and the ways that damage can pass down from mother to daughter as easily as love.--BCCB (starred) Where was the bear born?
Where delivered?
By the moon, next to the sun
Among the stars of the plough
Sent to Earth in a golden cradle
With silvery chains. Poorling is a little bear. She's a bit different from her brothers. Mother keeps their family safe. For the Forest is full of dangers. It is there that Mana lives, with her Shadow children. And above them all, Emuu, the great Grandma in the Sky. From the heart of Finnish folklore comes a breathtaking tale of mothers, daughters, stars and legends, and the old gods and the new.
Author: Mari Ahokoivu
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.58lbs
Size: 8.96h x 7.52w x 1.46d
ISBN: 9781646141135
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 08/09/2021 pg. 72
School Library Journal 09/01/2021 pg. 108
Foreword 08/26/2021
Booklist 10/15/2021 pg. 37
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2021 pg. 94
About the Author
Mari Ahokoivu is an illustrator and comics artist from Finland. Her magnum opus, Oksi, was called beautiful, clever, funny, vibrant, and full of magic by the biggest newspaper in her home country; was shortlisted for the Jarkko Laine Award; and has now been translated into English as the first graphic novel on the Levine Querido list. Silja-Maaria Aronpuro is a Finnish translator. She finds bringing other people's stories to life in a different language pretty magical. She is happy to have translated books that have been selected the Finnish graphic novel of the year 2018 and the translation of the year 2019 by the panel of critics in the Finnish comics society's magazine.
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